Activists Confront 2020 Candidates in Iowa About Drones and War
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-26
| In late July, the MQ-9 Reaper drone, the U.S.'s foremost killer drone, will enter the Iowa presidential primary contest in a cable TV ad that challenges 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to pledge to end all U.S. drone attacks, close U.S. drone bases and work for a global ban on weaponized drones. | The ad, due to appear on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, will urge support for the End Drone War Pledge campaign plann…
truthout.org/articles/activists-confront-2020-candidates-in-iowa-about-drones-and-war/

Johnson reveals where he got the idea for a cabinet of treacherous numbskulls
John Shafthauer | thecanary.co | 2019-07-25
Despite stiff competition from May and Cameron, Boris Johnson has formed what may be the worst cabinet of all time: | Boris Johnson — Prime Minister | Sajid Javid — Chancellor | Priti Patel — Home Secretary | Dominic Raab — Foreign Secretary | Gavin Williamson — Education Secretary | Theresa Villiers — Environment Secretary | This isn't a cabinet. It's a medieval torture chamber. #cabinetreshuffle | — Chuka Umunna's Flip Flops (@Wa…
thecanary.co/off-the-perch/2019/07/25/johnson-reveals-where-he-got-the-idea-for-a-cabinet-of-treacherous-numbskulls/

US Secretary of State Pompeo announces "new era" of US-Latin America reaction
wsws.org | 2019-07-25
Pompeo boasted about extraditing Assange, while demanding greater spying, anti-immigrant crackdowns and alignment with the US drive against its geopolitical rivals.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/25/pomp-j25.html

Chelsea Manning's lawyer refutes conspiracy allegation against Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-07-25
"I don't think Chelsea was played at all," Nancy Hollander told Australian television.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/25/assa-j25.html

'Algorithms don't write themselves': Google whistleblower on Big Tech merging with politics
rt.com | 2019-07-25
A senior Google software engineer has dismissed the idea that Big Tech can be politically neutral and called out his company as "very biased," joining Project Veritas' growing stable of whistleblowers. | …
rt.com/usa/465000-google-engineer-whistleblower-veritas/

Joe Biden's New Foreign Policy Adviser Supported Iraq War and Dubbed Edward Snowden a "Traitor"
Ryan Grim | theintercept.com | 2019-07-24
Nicholas Burns worked under presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush before leaving public service and becoming a lobbyist.
theintercept.com/2019/07/24/joe-biden-nicholas-burns-foreign-policy/

There is no such thing as a 'green' war
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-24
The military industrial complex is a major contributor to climate change. This calls for a merger of anti-war, climate and refugee solidarity movements, writes Eleanor Goldfield.
greenleft.org.au/content/there-no-such-thing-green-war

WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Decoding the National Security Commentariat
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-22
The Fourth Estate, that historical unelected grouping of society's scrutineers, has become something of a rabble, and, as a confederacy of strewn dunces and the ongoing compromised, is ripe for analysis. An essential premise in the work of WikiLeaks was demonstrating, to a good, stone-throwing degree, how media figures and practitioners had been bought by …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/wikileaks-julian-assange-and-decoding-the-national-security-commentariat/

In 2003, This U.K. Whistleblower Almost Stopped the Iraq Invasion. A New Film Tells Her Story
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-19
In 2003, Katharine Gun, a young specialist working for Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed the United States' collaboration with Britain in collecting sensitive information on United Nations Security Council members in order to pressure them into supporting the Iraq invasion. Gun leaked the memo to the press, setting off a chain of events that jeopardized her freedom and safety, but also opened the door to putting the entire legality of the Iraq invasion on trial. ‚Ä®‚Ä®Acclaimed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsb…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/19/katharine_gun_whistleblower_official_secrets_movie